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Hospitality and Tourism

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Chapter 1:
Section 1-1
Short Answer: (3/2/1 grading rubric)
  • Why are the hospitality and tourism industries considered fast-paced and challenging?
    • The hospitality and tourism industries are considered fast-paced and challenging because when you check into a hotel or make reservations at a restaurant, the servers/helpers try to get people into their rooms or at their table at a fast pace in order to keep the customer happy to avoid an argument with the customer. The hospitality and tourism industries are challenging because it takes a lot of work to make sure that every customer who comes to a hotel or restaurant are happy and enjoy what they came for.
  • What factor (s) makes hospitality and tourism different from other industries?
    • The factors that make the hospitality and tourism different from other industries is that the people who work at a restaurant or hotel are there to make sure that the customers have the best experience and find what they are looking for, in order to make sure that they enjoy their vacation or dinning experience.
  • What is the meaning of intangibility? How does it relate to hospitality and tourism?
    • The meaning of intangibility is a state of being abstract, or can not be touched. Intangibility relates to hospitality and tourism because you are not able to touch politeness, or kindness towards someone and that is what hospitality and tourism means; is to be kind towards someone who needs help with finding transportation, or a nice place to eat and have good service.
Assignment:
  • Go online and choose a country you would like to visit. Find three cities/places you would visit, 2 restaurants, and 2 attractions. Type up your findings.

Country I would like to visit:
I would like to visit Italy because that is part of my culture and I would like to see what it is like there, met new people and experience new foods

Three cities/places I would visit:
The three cities/places that I would like to visit would have to be Venice, Rome(Capital of Italy), and Pompeii, because I want to see all the attractions that are in each city that make it so famous and worth traveling to.

Two Restaurants:
The two restaurants that I would go to would be Fortunato al Pantheon in Rome, and I would go to Vincanto in Pompei

Two attractions:
Two attractions I would want to see would be the Colosseum and the Sistine Chapel, because these are some of the famous attractions that tourists hope to see when they travel to Italy.

Section 1-2
  • go online and find 3 museums from another state or country.
  • List out the museum, web site address, and 3 interesting items you found on the web site.
  • Would a traveler find the web site user friendly?
  • What advice would you give the web master to make it more user friendly?

  1. California State Railroad Museum: http://www.csrmf.org/
  • The museum offers train rides on some of the most famous trains in the world
  • The museum first opened to the public in 1976, and receives 500,000 visitors annually
  • Some of the exhibits that are included are the Pullman-style sleeping car, a dining car filled with railroad china, and a railroad post office
  • A traveler would find the web site user friendly because it is easy to navigate around the web site and find out information that will give insight about the museum
  • The advice that I would give the web master in order to make the web site more user friendly would be to put more pictures of what exhibits the museum would be showing

2. Maine State Museum: http://mainestatemuseum.org/about_us/
  • One year after the museum opened it lost its new found independance when a organization of government took place. Eighteen years later however, the museum regained a semi-independant status
  • The museum exhibits a revolutionary war fife, a south sea island war club, a shoe worn aboard the Mayflower, Eskimo clothing, and Japanese goods
  • Themuseum also has three different collections, which are history, pre-history, and natural science
  • A traveler would not find the web site user friendly because everything is scattered around the site and it is difficult to find information
  • The advice that I would give the web master in order to make it more user friendly would be arrange the information in order and in a certain spot so that way it can be easily accessed

3. The State Museum of Oriental Art: http://www.orientmuseum.ru/en/
  • This museum is one of the largest cultural educational institutions of the Russian Federation
  • Attached to the museum is a gallery "Shon" where people can go and view ancient works of art that are not included in the museum
  • The people that get free admissions into the museum are: Veterans of the Great Patriotic War, soldiers of the Russian army, museum employees, members of unions of artists, journalists and architects, students of art institutions or higher learning and secondary art colleges, and lastly preschool children
  • A traveler would find this web site user friendly because all of the information that someone would need to know about this museum is located on the first page and is explained in great detail, plus it can be read in another language by the click of a button
  • The advice that I would give the web master in order to make it more user friendly would be to include some pictures of what the museum has for exhibits otherwise people will not have a good idea of what they are going to see